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name: Mastodon
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date: 2023-11-03T10:29:40.000-04:00
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desc: Joining the fediverse
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### Mastodon
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Hello, small blog post today.
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I am prod to announce I have joined the fediverse!!
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Well Im already on matrix, but this is like the first public instance open too.
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#### Experiences
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So as of writing this, I have only been hosting my own instance for 2 days now. It was a bit
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annoying to setup (just a few docker containers and proxy shenanigans), but hey it works now!
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The main gripe I currently have with activity pub so far is the lack of discovery and reading older events.
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Currently you can only search for things that you are directly federated with. So for example, my server is federated with `lgbt.tech`, so I can search for things on there. Also I cant see older posts. If I go to anyone I follow, I can only see posts since I started federating with them. Any older posts require me to go to their mastodon (or anything that supports activity pub) instance.
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A cool thing though that ive noticed is that activity pub allows federation outside mastodon. So far Ive only seen lemmy accounts, but I find that cool.
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#### Long way to go
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Overall, I think activity pub as a protocol has a long way to go. There are some things I wish where implemented, mainly things that matrix has. But overall its really cool, and Im going to continue to use it for the foreseeable future.
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Cheers!
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